“Blue” is a song about a love that is persisting in the discomfort of the person experiencing the emotion. Ed Sheeran reflects on love lost, and although he wishes his former partner find happiness, he cannot but admit his feelings are still very much there. He expresses the realization that he might never find another on this stringed instrumental by Aaron Dessner.
It was a rainy night when
He came into sight
Standing by the road
No umbrella, no coat
So I pulled up along side and
I offered him a ride
He accepted with a smile
So we drove for a while
I didn't ask him his name
This lonely boy in the rain
Fate tell me it's right
Is this love at first sight?
All I wanna do is make love to you
Say you will
You want me too
All I wanna do is make love to you
I've got lovin' arms to hold on to
So we found this hotel
It was a place I knew well
We made magic that night
Oh, he did everything right
He brought the woman out of me
So many times, easily
And in the morning when he woke
All I left him was a note
I told him
"I am the flower, you are the seed
We walked in the garden
We planted a tree
Don't try to find me
Please don't you dare
Just live in my memory
You'll always be there"
All I wanna do is make love to you
One night of love was all we knew
All I wanna do is make love to you
I've got lovin' arms to hold on to
Oh, oh, we made love
Love like strangers
All night long
We made love
Then it happened one day
We came around the same way
You can imagine his surprise
When he saw his own eyes
I said, "Please, please understand
I'm in love with another man
And what he couldn't give me
Was the one little thing that you can"
All I wanna do is make love to you
One night of love was all we knew
All I wanna do is make love to you
Say you will, you want me too
All night long
All night long
All night long
All night long
He came into sight
Standing by the road
No umbrella, no coat
So I pulled up along side and
I offered him a ride
He accepted with a smile
So we drove for a while
I didn't ask him his name
This lonely boy in the rain
Fate tell me it's right
Is this love at first sight?
All I wanna do is make love to you
Say you will
You want me too
All I wanna do is make love to you
I've got lovin' arms to hold on to
So we found this hotel
It was a place I knew well
We made magic that night
Oh, he did everything right
He brought the woman out of me
So many times, easily
And in the morning when he woke
All I left him was a note
I told him
"I am the flower, you are the seed
We walked in the garden
We planted a tree
Don't try to find me
Please don't you dare
Just live in my memory
You'll always be there"
All I wanna do is make love to you
One night of love was all we knew
All I wanna do is make love to you
I've got lovin' arms to hold on to
Oh, oh, we made love
Love like strangers
All night long
We made love
Then it happened one day
We came around the same way
You can imagine his surprise
When he saw his own eyes
I said, "Please, please understand
I'm in love with another man
And what he couldn't give me
Was the one little thing that you can"
All I wanna do is make love to you
One night of love was all we knew
All I wanna do is make love to you
Say you will, you want me too
All night long
All night long
All night long
All night long
Lyrics submitted by Ice, edited by Mellow_Harsher
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Ed Sheeran
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Midnight
Ed Sheeran
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“Well, good morning there / What a way to start the day / With everything laid bare,” Ed Sheeran sings in the first verse, enthusiastic to be waking up beside his woman. He apologizes for missing her calls in the second verse and promises to return them because for him, speaking to her is the most important thing. “Well, I get lost inside my head / In this chaos, you’re my calm / And I will find my feet again / ‘Cause еven the worst days of my life will always еnd / At midnight in your arms,” sings Ed Sheeran in the chorus, revelling in his good luck.

Somewhere Only We Know
Keane
Keane
Per the FAQ on Keane's website, Keane's drummer Richard Hughes, stated the following:
"We've been asked whether "Somewhere Only We Know" is about a specific place, and Tim has been saying that, for him, or us as individuals, it might be about a geographical space, or a feeling; it can mean something individual to each person, and they can interpret it to a memory of theirs... It's perhaps more of a theme rather than a specific message... Feelings that may be universal, without necessarily being totally specific to us, or a place, or a time..."
With the nostalgic sentiment and the overall tone of the song, I think Keane is attempting to express a Portuguese term known as 'saudade', which does not have a direct English translation but roughly means "that which we remember because it is gone."

Zombie
Cranberries, The
Cranberries, The
"Zombie" is about the ethno-political conflict in Ireland. This is obvious if you know anything of the singer (Dolores O'Riordan)'s Irish heritage and understood the "1916" Easter Rising reference.
"Another head hangs lowly
Child is slowly taken
And the violence caused such silence
Who are we mistaken
-
Another mother's breaking
Heart is taking over"
Laments the Warrington bomb attacks in which two children were fatally injured on March 23rd, 1993. Twelve year old Tim Parry was taken off life support with permission from his mother after five days in the hospital, virtually braindead.
"But you see it's not me
It's not my family"
References how people who are not directly involved with the violence feel about it. They are "zombies" without sympathy who refuse to take action while others suffer.
The lyrics tell you the meaning exactly. In the second verse she talks about the night they spent together, and uses the phrase "I am the flower, you are the seed, we walked in the garden and planted a tree" Refer back many years ago to sex ed... that is called sexual intercourse and fertilization.
Then in the last verse she plainly tells him, I'm in love with another man, what he couldn't give me (that would be a baby, so apparently he could not reproduce) was the ONE little thing that YOU can.
So, in short : She wanted a baby, hot guy on the side of the road, great night of sex, child produced. VOILA kiddies, that's your song. Thanks for playing.
Well, this song is telling the story of a woman who is married to a man who cannot have children, or is sterile, but she wants to. so she simply finds someone who is willing to be her "one night stand" sperm donor, who gives her something her husband never could, but she feels bad so she tells her husband it is his. Then one day she sees the guy in a store and he notices the child right away because it has his eyes.
This song is about a woman that wants to have a baby, but cannot because her husband is incapable, so she picks up a random dude from the street. So they go into a hotel (basically a one night stand). The man then awakens to find a note poetically saying, "we shared a night, but it wasn't anything that special, so don't try to find me, but remember me." So a couple years later, they cross paths at a hotel the man works at at. When he looked up from his desk, he saw her baby and relized that it was his ( he saw his own eyes). So then the lady tells him about her other lover (stated above). The music video clearly explains it.
@DeathValley69 wow I'm from Argentina...<br /> And I understood the lyric wrong thank you for clearing it up... <br /> It's sad... :'( I thought it was only a casual relation if you know what I mean...This song moved me
These lyrics are too vague and leave too many questions unanswered.
I agree with the intentional pregnancy interpretation. Otherwise the letter she writes to the homeless man makes no sense and is way too creepy.
But this doesn't explain why she knows the hotel so well. Has she been sleeping with all the homeless men in town in that hotel trying to get pregnant and we're only hearing the story about the guy that knocked her up? Does she work there? Why does she know it so well?
Does she currently want to make love to him or is she just reliving the past when she says that's all she wants to do? The lyrics seem to say she doesn't want anything to do with him.
The fact that this song was written by a man only adds to the confusion, because men can't have children yet.
@identificator Repeating the chorus doesn't mean they have sex again. It's just him remembering what she said now that he knows her ulterior motive. It's not surprising that the song was written by a man. After all it makes the first person character look pretty bad.
@identificator The place she knew well is a rhyming lyrical device. If she made a habit of this behaviour she wouldn't even know whose child it was.<br /> <br /> It has to be said this does enter bizarro territory at the finish, where it is revealed she only wanted this fellow for his live sperm, nothing else, despite the subtly as a sledgehammer expressed pleasure and emotion of the encounter. Could have just as easily gone to an IVF clinic.
Actually, the lyrics say that the very next morning right after they have sex, she leaves him a note that says ""I am the flower you are the seed...We walked in the garden...etc.". I'd argue that if she knows the very next day that they "planted a tree" then she knows she's pregnant. The average woman take at least 28 days to realize she is pregnant, if my sex ed. memory serves. The fact that she wakes up thinking (or perhaps hoping) she is pregnant, means she went into it looking for a baby daddy. BOOYAH!!!
Actually, a woman ovulates each month around the same time and can take a test to pinpoint when she will ovulate. Since, as it states in the song, it was her intention to become pregnant she likely sought out a tryst while she was ovulating. Therefore, unless her one-night lover was sterile she would have been impregnated.
SHE HAS GOT SOME LYRICS WRONG.. PLEASE THUMBS UP
It was a rainy... night when he came into sight Standing by the road, pants to his ankles, fucking a goat So I pulled.. up along.. side and I offered him a ride He accepted with a smile so we drove for a while I didn't ask him if he came..., this horny boy in the rain Fate tell me it's right, Goat... sex is alright Please don't make it wrong, I want this man tonight All I want to do is make love to you Say you will, you want humans too All I want to do is make love to you I've got a farm, lots of animals too.
So we found this hostel, this place looked like hell We had tragic sex that night. Oh, what a strange fucking sight He brought the animal out of me..,so many times, easily And in the morning when we woke I.. felt like that poor goat. I told him I want some marijuana, lets smoke some weed We went hunting for a bargain, cheap is fine by me. Don't try to judge me, please don't you dare I live in a trailer, smoking weed YEAH YEAH YEAH!
All I want to do is make love to you One night of love is all I knew All want to do is make love to you I've got lovin... arms to hold on to
Oh, oooh, we made love it's kinda dangerous All night long We made love
Then it happened one day, three weeks after that day and you can imagine to my surprise I was was pregnant for the fifth time. I said please, please i dont understand It was one night... with that fucking man And what he's now done to me Ohhh Oh
Is the one little thing that he can....
All I wanted to do is make love to you One night of love is all I knew All I wanted to do is make love to you Come on, you said will, you wanted too
All I wanted to do is make love to you One night of love is all I knew All I wanted to do is make love to you Said you will baby, you wanted too
All night long...
I'm so happy that I came across this it seriously made my night. I never laughed so hard. Do you have anymore remixes to lyrics you've done? I would enjoy reading them. This cracked me up (:
easy meaning........woman who is married to and in love with a sterile man, finds sperm donar since whe wants a baby.
Well I have to add my 2 cent's since it has happened to me . I lost my drivers licence and had to hitch hike to work every day well this youg woman would allways see me and pass by well one day it was raining and she picked me up well we became friends and the problem was she was getting married but at the same time falling for me well she stumbled accross the tape all I want to do is make love to you well she did we made love on a rainy day and then we were got cought by her new husband makeing out well she had to make a choice and she stayed with him but she was with child my child I have never seen her again <br />
Bullshit!
nope, not quite, sh'es not married when she picks the guy up, she just wants a one night stand. it's the same scenario that every woman sometimesgoes throuhg, guy wants one night, woman falls in love. simp,le as that, a few years later she finds him, only wiht a twist. all she wanted was tog et laid that night. well he fell in love. after that, she married a guy who she had been dating, and told him the kid was his. but when she saw the hitchhiker again a few years later, she realkized she was in love with him, but it was too late. simple as that
no, For me ("please, please understand<br /> I'm in love with another man<br /> And what he couldn't give me<br /> was the one little thing that you can)say that she made love with the hickhiker to get pregnant because the man she loves is sterile and cannot make her pregnant.
A terrifying song from a man's point of view. How the tables can be turned like that. Powerful lryics - top notch song!
I used to love this track years and years ago!! :)